The Vienna Government expects to migrate its desktop computer software to an open source software environment in the second quarter of this year.
Erwin Gillich, the Vienna City Government Information Technology, Vienna City, said, "This will be a 'soft' migration", government users can choose to migrate from Microsoft Office 2000 to open source.org, from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux platform . Since OpenOffice.org supports Windows and Linux, users can also replace the operating system.
According to Gillich, Vienna's government departments have a total of 16,000 computers. The government has confirmed that 7,500 upgraded office software, and 4,800 of them need to upgrade the operating system. Government IT portions If you choose an open source software, you can get free installation, and your other departments receive less than Microsoft Office or Windows. Users will receive technical support.
The price advantage may stimulate some departments to migrate the software platform, but the first year is estimated that only hundreds of users will choose open source software, Gillich believes that it takes a while to grow this number, but he doesn't think all users will choose new. Software Environment.
Gillich said: I hope that open source software can win, but this is determined by the internal small market, I don't think all of these 7500 computers need to replace software will migrate to an open source software environment. The better the software, the more people use it. Open source software is cheaper, so it may be some, but it will not be a lot.
The Vienna Government will start to upgrade and migrate work from May and June this year.
Since last year, Gillich's IT departments have been committed to the customer's customization of Debian's Linux software Wienux, making it more like Windows. Gillich tends to create its own dedicated version instead of using Red Hat or Novell Suse software.
Vienna is not the only big city that migrate to the desktop Linux. Germany plans to transfer it to OpenOffice.org and Linux, Norwegian Bergen, which is 32,000 students. 100 School deployment open software.
Paris, France can also consider opening source software in 170,000 computers, but finally gave up, the reason is that the lack of good services will greatly improve their migration costs.
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